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Perpetrator Wanted

1931 · 85 min

A talky, plot-heavy old thriller that keeps you leaning in to follow the legal twists and turns.

Overview
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a lecture about convictions based on circumstantial evidence. When a corpse with a disfigured face is found in the house of the senator, evidence points to the editor. An entertaining thriller with a fairly intricate plot and some critical comments on the practice of the law. Based on the novel "Der geschlossene Ring" by Frank Arnau.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • justice
  • deception
  • guilt
  • love
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
crime
Directed by
Carl Heinz Wolff
Written by
Egon Eis, Rudolph Cartier
Starring
Paul Henckels, Gerda Maurus, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Fritz Odemar, Harry Hardt, Ernst Behmer, Rosa Valetti, Gustav Rickelt
Cinematography
Alfred Hansen
Runtime
85 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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